“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

Placing the union of poetic gift and human greatness at the highest level · Essay, The Lyric, What Is Lyric

• Art
• Fame
• Poetry

“The poetic mood, selecting a subject, records its perception of that subject, the result is a lyric, and the mood passes.”

Describing a lyric as the record of a fleeting state of perception · Essay, The Lyric, Lyric Forms

• Memory
• Poetry
• Time

“A dirge may be in racing anapæsts, laughter in the most sedate iambic measure; a solemn invocation may move in rapid three-foot lines, while grave heroic verse may contain the gayest of humours.”

Showing that metre does not carry a fixed emotional meaning · Essay, The Lyric, Lyric Forms

• Joy
• Music
• Poetry